I just changed as a person and have always been changing constantly from fifteen to twenty-three..

Has anybody seen my tambourine?.

And she walked away, and she walked away, and that was that, and that was that..

Take what you do seriously, but yourself lightly.

The problem [ of the twenty-two million Afro-Americans] is so broad that it's going to take the inner working of all organizations..

Everything I do, I do for love..

What doesn't kill us makes us funnier..

From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt..

Learning patience takes a lot of patience!.

All of the music works on its own, but it doesn't really make as much sense without the picture..

One catches more flies with a spoonful of honey that with twenty casks of vinegar..

I am always tying up and then deciding to depart..

The older you get the more you understand what you're doing.

Stop shoulding on yourself.

When you are handed something instead of having to work for it, you don't respect it as much..

Nobody can ever take Michael Jackson's place, it's only one Michael..

Needing something is not the same thing as being interested in the thing itself..

Just as we are what we eat physically, we are also what we consume spiritually..

I'm a woman of the '90s..

I take things too seriously..

We women are doing pretty well. We're almost back to where we were in the twenties..